STATE FINANCIALIZATION

STATE financialization is a collaborative project exploring the nexus between statecraft and market-based finance

Financialization has become the focal point for researchers who study how finance is reshaping the world in its own image.

The State Financialization (StateFin) project investigates how governmental actions unfold through the expansion of financial markets. Governments are certainly vulnerable to risk-oriented and digitally intensive financial markets. Yet, politicians and policymakers can use financial practices and devices to exercise statecraft in a finance-mediated fashion.

StateFin draws on an interdisciplinary research platform at the interface of International Political Economy, Economic Geography and Organization Theory.

RESEARCH OUTPUT | ACADEMIC STUDIES

Neo-illiberalism

Hendrikse, R. (2018) Neo-illiberalism. Geoforum 95: 169-172

Derivatives and the financialization of the Italian state

Lagna, A. (2016) Derivatives and the financialization of the Italian state, New Political Economy 21(2): 167-186.

The long arm of finance

Hendrikse, R. (2015). The long arm of finance: Exploring the unlikely financialization of governments and public institutions. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.

Hendrikse, R. and Sideway, J. (2014) Financial wizardry and the Golden City: tracking the financial crisis through Pforzheim, Germany, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 39(2): 195-208.